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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by rralian on Friday August 12, 2016 @10:58AM (#12276214)
When she gets older, if you let her watch Cartoon Network, there's quite a bit of content with zero educational or moral value. In fact, the latest incarnation of Teen Titans seems to be written by people my age (40) _for_ people my age. With tons of references to 80s culture that the kids would never get.
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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by reitanqild on Friday August 12, 2016 @11:36AM (#12276498)
Shaun the Sheep is wonderful sometimes. It is a mix of things kids enjoy as well as references only grown ups will get.

My kids will come and tell me when it shows up in between all the braindead stuff because they know I'll sit together with them. Same goes for Tom&Jerry (eh, the part about me sitting down to watch TV, not the part about hidden references.)

Edit: oh, and I found the Winnie the Pooh audiobook from before Disney bought it and turned it into another educational timewaster. Kids have learned to like it as well.

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by CM30 on Friday August 12, 2016 @03:56PM (#12278325)
"With tons of references to 80s culture that the kids would never get."

This is likely in part deliberate. A significant amount of Teen Titans Go seems to be about taking potshots that those who enjoyed the original cartoon. Like 'Revenge of Slade' and its entire plot being a poorly disguised lecture on how fans of the first cartoon shouldn't want this one to be more than randomness for really young kids.

Which of course means anyone actually in the target demographic would have no clue what half the episode means. It's simultaneously confusing to young kids and infuriating to older viewers at the same time.

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Re:What Danes consider healthy children’s television by tclancy on Friday August 12, 2016 @11:07AM (#12276286)
That was actually one of the first shows she really paid attention to (along with Clarence), but it was back when she was really just interested in colors and sound and not able or interested in repeating what she saw. If we let her watch TTG! on the regular now the house would be a burning pile of rubble.
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